This is the place where the majority of the warbird (aircraft that have survived military service) discussions will take place. Specialized forums may be added in the new future
Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:41 pm
San Diego Aerospace Museum is building a replica of the X-1. Is that the only one out there? I know one was built for the movie The Right Stuff (although I don't know what happened to it after the movie).
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/sep/23/museum-building-replica-yeagers-x-1-rocket-plane/?sciquest
Mon Sep 24, 2012 12:11 am
I think three replicas were built for Right Stuff and since they used archived BELL 1/4 scale drawings to build them, with the advent of computers and their being so much more accurate than slide rules, the models actually came up slightly larger than the actual aircraft but much closer to the size the BELL engineers were actually shooting for in 1946.
